However, several years ago, Shimada and some of his colleagues began to question the underlying assumption that megalodon looked like a huge great white shark. In reviewing a August 2022 paper, in ...

Its jaws would've been able to exert up to 40,960 pounds of force. Megalodon prey would've included seals, sea turtles, and even whales. Scientists think that megalodon would've used its jaws to ...

The research, published Sunday in the journal “Palaeontologia Electronica,” suggests that the megalodon, which dominated the ocean 3.5 million years ago, was more than three times the size of ...

The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white shark, but new research suggests that perception is all wrong. The study finds the prehistoric hunter had a much longer body—closer in ...

The research, published Sunday in the journal “Palaeontologia Electronica,” suggests that the megalodon, which dominated the ocean 3.5 million years ago, was more than three times the size of a great ...

Universal Pictures is leaving no barrel untied as they prepare for the half-century celebration of Steven Spielberg’s classic 1975 seaside suspense saga, Jaws. With a multitude of events planned for ...

A new study proposes that the massive ancient shark was built more slenderly than a great white. But not all paleontologists ...

Famously, the Megalodon was the biggest shark in the world, and one of the most powerful predators to have ever lived. Formally called Otodus megalodon, it is commonly portrayed as a gigantic ...

The giant extinct shark species known as the megalodon has captured the interest of scientists and the general public alike, ...

Shark biologists now say a lemon shark, like this one, is a better model of the extinct megalodon's body than the great white ... “The Meg” against one that gave creative birth to “Jaws” may not be ...